The Literacy Landscape

The Literacy Landscape is an introductory text about the role of literacy in education. It explores the concept of language and literacy, its historical origins, its components and how this relates to specific aspects of literacy education.

Each topic commences with the desired learning outcomes, these are designed to clearly define the objectives of the chapter. This is followed by Orientation and Further Reading both allow the students to start thinking about the topic being discussed.

Each chapter continues with the Investigating Learning Outcomes section this along with the Reflection Strategies gets students to collect data and analyse the scenarios so that they can better understand the differing concepts of literacy.